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RPM 2024 track 7
A good friend of mine has a Samoyed. This is a song about him.
I was hoping for a kiiind of Cheap Suit Serenaders feel. Acoustic guitar, a 1920s tenor banjo and a brand new mandolin.
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Throw it away
Throw it away
Murder your darlings and make a break you can’t
Keep them all hanging round this place
We all know an ending’s never a waste
Take it away
Take it away
What’s so special it can’t be safe and we
Felt the loss…
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Well I felt much better than yesterday
And I won't say nothing
But you can't give all this time away
Give me a break
Please say something
But a forced word's not worth much today
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smile - nod my head
emphatic agreement
i want you to know this team is my bag
please don’t take this earnestness
to be a fake, a ploy, a way
to get ahead
Costs nothing for me to smile
Costs nothing for me to shake
Let this sincere…
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Didn't start out to write a break-up song, but like a lot of well-intentioned relationships, this one turned out that way.
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Feeling that something's looming
Why, I feel low sounds in my head that shouldn't be there
And when the storm it breaks
O'er the hill, 'bove the tree high
Crack and spark now to fade
Get inside
Leave home, keep dry
All around you is…
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There is no artistry
The way that I am crafted
Views from the Seventies
My preference still to sound this way
That formant dirtiness
Is beauty, not of Frankenstein
Branded as a charlatan
Has anybody seen me?
Branded
[I choose to be…
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Recorded live at 11:30PM on Nov. 30, 2023
Minibrute 2, Microfreak, guitar, SR-16.
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Your imagination can drain you or energize you. Which do you choose?
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One Saturday afternoon at the studio, Nick played around on the Clavinova, running through some chord shapes and notes to try out the instrument's various piano sounds. Kevin recorded the performance and later chopped up and combined some of those…
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It's all we have. let's be thankful for our ability to experience the only thing that really exists. right now.
Still writing a #songaday about something I’m grateful for this month
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I love stories! I learn more from fiction than from real life. I don't know why today's song is so weird, but I'm grateful for the works of Terry Pratchett in particular recently, who has provided me with so much inspiration and motivation for…
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This piece is somewhat programmatic, somewhat expressive. I wanted to tell a story of moving from a dark place of drudgery and powerlessness to finding courage, strength, purpose, and joy.
Created for the Record Every Month challenge for July…
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July 2023 A-side. I was thinking about Black Flag and Sex Pistols for this one.
No more kings or monarchies
We will bring them to their knees
Crowns get tossed into the sea
No rules only anarchy
You might have your throne today
But we…
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was excised like a human tumor from her life, we visited Bobbi-Jo at Dunkin Donuts, where she worked. She gave me a coffee and Pepper asked me to take Brick for a walk so they could spend ten minutes together. I took the coffee and the dog and…
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Leum dropped off these lyrics at the April REM Challenge recording session, to see what other folks would do with them. At the first May recording session, we scanned through the lyrics and decided to try to put them to music. Robbie had a couple…
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[Verse]
I’ma get straight to it
More shoutouts, things that have to be said
Friends and ones to shoutout more than before
Wet-Jet-Seymour, keep it going on
Isor One so strong
Markeise, you know that you’re the key
Director, keep directing…
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(interpolates lyrics from "Landslide" by Fleetwood Mac)
[Verse 1]
You were the runt, went to school and they beat you bad
Taken out of school to no longer experience that
Now I know your mom and dad are not the smartest
Did they have a…
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When I tried to get sober we moved in together again. Soon enough I was stealing weed from him and playing his XBOX in the basement all day instead of working. When he came home at night I wrote noise music upstairs.
On my fourth birthday Mrs…
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acoustic guitar, bow, Loopy app.
Follow my ongoing Dailies project here
https://acousticchurch.bandcamp.com/music
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The Record Every Month Challenge to record one song each month for the whole year isn't stressful enough, so I upped the ante to be record a single every month. An A Side and a B Side. This song is the A Side for April. I like it... I don't…
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Life isn't fair. Why me? Why him? Why anything.
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It's like Ocean's 11, but with fewer bodies and more stabbage. This clandestine organization might not be the best at what they do.
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rpm 2023
drums: Jorn Erdman
i met her at the local
though we met a week before
house party in the summer
i was standing at the door
truth be told
i don't remember
that was the point back then
to have a memorable evening
you can't…
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Chords available at: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xAMxfHKWilk6yTvPgAG2KfF6hu42dI9W/view?usp=share_link
Along the Way
We wandered the streets between sunset and dawn
Our demons all come and gone…
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Four songs complete for the 2023 RPM Challenge and I think this one might be the winner. I have it penciled in for track one. I came up with the opening (Asus2 -> Cmaj7) while testing the signal path into GarageBand when I was setting up…
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Revisited a song from my 2015 RPM Challenge; added some tracks and messed with the vocals to sort out how I would arrange it for a real vocalists.
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Was visiting Glasgow at the old docks and not a ship to be seen. I was imagining the days when the Clyde must have been crammed deck to deck with sail boats of all kinds. Very ghostly now...
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Still struggling with GarageBand. Decided to go with the loop sequencer today. It’s fun and flexible. So is this track.
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Ever heard some thing strange in the night
Well , I have
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Ran late this week. You are special. Just like everyone else.
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Inspired by Dave Smith and the excellent German TV show "Dark."
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1st track from new album LOFI MOJO Vol. 1. A little blues to start it off!
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Broke out the Prophet 16 with some Blade Runner patches and my bass and went to work. Sounds like more movie stuff.
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This song sets a breathless pace. It's about a girl who dances everyone else under the table.
Lyrics:
Dancing through the crowded room
A silver band in her hair
Weaving, whirling, on her toes
There's music in the air
A lover taps his…
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I was so disappointed in the youtube retention stats on the original version of this that I created this neoclassical version (the Imaginary Crowdpleaser Mix) thinking it would be more accessible. I renamed the original (I think I still like it…
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A buzz continues building
One loss is someone’s winning
So to a toy our thinking
And we will revel in this round - woot woot
(woot woot)
For the moment sound woot woot
(woot woot)
This is the sound that our hearts make
This is the sound…
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minimal, many mistakes, ridiculous percussive elements but that wasn't the point here. Actually i guess in fact it is the point. to live in the present, stop trying to repair the past and see what comes of it.
I had left my music rig on all…
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Travelling is all very nice but don't be away too long.......
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Some work with a new collab partner: Wendingo24 from Freesound.org
One of 2 remixes I have created based on some earlier recordings by Wendingo24.
He provided the acoustic guitar at the start of the track (which I also manipulated to sound like…
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A heavy metal track...
Since I don't play the guitar (or any other instrument) , all the guitars you hear were created inside my computer...
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Song #4 of the 2022 RPM Challenge.
I like this one. If this were a real album and I had to pick a single for release this one would be on the short list. Even if it is in 6/4 time and GarageBand's drummers almost always put a pointless crash…
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Demo #3 for FAWM ’22.
[INTRO]
Gimme a ticket for an aeroplane
Cause I ain’t got time for no slow ass train
My babies moving on,
and I know when she’s gone
My life will only get better…
One Two Three Four!
[CHORUS]
Gimmie a ticket…
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Week 4 of the 2022 Song of the Week challenge. I'm not sure where this one went off the rails, but I suspect it started going sideways the moment I thought of it. If you skipped this one, nobody's feelings will be hurt.
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Before Covid, there was a nightlife. This is an old song celebrating those days. Kinda.
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New Years Day, for most folk, follows a week of unbridled excess; the large 'special' celebratory meals, all that rich food, all those sweet extras, and possibly even a drink or two (no, really)! We figured that after all of that, the ONLY thing…
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Where in the World by Wayne Webster
Just tell me where in the world you are
How far you’ve gone and if I’ve gone too far
Will I see you in the neon of these city bars?
Or anywhere I look under the stars?
Lead me
To the wind’s twelve…
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A new Idea for Malignant Inception Song... again, nothing in stone rough draft - Added Bass and Keyboards! Added some panning and volume tweaks on 5/18
Added new BASS EQ and enhancement on 6-7
Added D Standard recording tracks to most parts…
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2021 50/90 S0ng Number 51
I listen to this song and I am struck by how little there is to it. It sounds simple and basic and un-special in every way.
Why then was it such an absolute nightmare to sing. I mean... I had to dumb down the…
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Song written by Mick Gardner, I play bass on the track, sing backing and I engineered and produced it.
Released this year as part of the "Because..." EP
The Weirdest Thing is the band name.
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2021 50/90 Song Number 49
I like this one and I can't figure out why. It's certainly not because of the recording because it's pretty hacky. You can pretty much hear every punch and every edit. It's certainly not because of the vocals because…
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My good friend Adam Donnelly played the trumpet part on this.
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